Tacoma, Washington Tacoma, Washington City of Tacoma Tacoma horizon and I-705 from the East 34th Street Flag of Tacoma, Washington Flag Official seal of Tacoma, Washington Location of Tacoma in Pierce County and Washington State Location of Tacoma in Tacoma, Washington is positioned in the US Tacoma, Washington - Tacoma, Washington Tacoma (/t ko m / t -koh-m ) is a mid-sized urban port town/city in and the governmental center of county of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The town/city is on Washington's Puget Sound, 32 miles (51 km) southwest of Seattle, 31 miles (50 km) northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and 58 miles (93 km) northwest of Mount Rainier National Park.
The populace was 198,397, as stated to the 2010 census. Tacoma is the second-largest town/city in the Puget Sound region and the third biggest in the state.
Tacoma also serves as the center of company activeness for the South Sound region, which has a populace of around 1 million citizens .
Commencement Bay serves the Port of Tacoma, a center of global trade on the Pacific Coast and Washington State's biggest port.
Like most central cities, Tacoma suffered a prolonged diminish in the mid-20th century as a result of suburbanization and divestment.
Since the 1990s, developments in the downtown core include the University of Washington Tacoma; Tacoma Link, the first undivided electric light rail service in the state; the state's highest density of art and history exhibitions; and a restored urban coastline, the Thea Foss Waterway.
Tacoma has been titled one of the most livable areas in the United States. In 2006, Tacoma was listed as one of the "most walkable" metros/cities in the country. That same year, the women's periodical Self titled Tacoma the "Most Sexually Healthy City" in the United States. In contrast, Tacoma was also ranked as the "most stressed-out" town/city in the nation in a 2004 survey. Tacoma attained notoriety in 1940 for the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which earned the nickname "Galloping Gertie".
The town/city of Tacoma and encircling areas were inhabited for thousands of years by American Indians, dominantly the Puyallup citizens , who lived in settlements on the delta.
In 1864, pioneer and postmaster Job Carr, a Civil War veteran and territory speculator, assembled a cabin (which also served as Tacoma's first postal service; a replica was erected in 2000 near the initial site in "Old Town"). Carr hoped to profit from the selection of Commencement Bay as the end of the Transcontinental Railroad, and sold most of his claim to developer Morton M.
Mc - Carver (1807 1875), who titled his universal Tacoma City, derived from the native name for the mountain.
Tacoma was incorporated on November 12, 1875, following its selection in 1873 as the end of the Northern Pacific Railroad due to lobbying by Mc - Carver, future mayor John Wilson Sprague, and others.
Rudyard Kipling attended Tacoma in 1889 and said it was "literally staggering under a boom of the boomiest". In 1890, he staged a global circumnavigation starting and ending in Tacoma to promote the city.
A plaque in downtown Tacoma marks the start and finish line.
The discernment of gold in the Klondike in 1898 led to Tacoma's eminence in the region being eclipsed by the evolution of Seattle.
Tacoma was briefly (1915 1922) a primary destination for big-time automobile racing, with one of the nation's top-rated racing venues positioned just outside the town/city limits, at the site of today's Clover Park Technical College.
One of the coldest winters on record, Tacoma experienced mass power outages and eventually the shutdown of primary power supply dams, leaving the town/city without sufficient power and heat. During the 30-day power shortage in the winter of 1929 and 1930, Tacoma was provided with electricity from the engines of the airplane carrier USS Lexington. In 1935, Tacoma received nationwide attention when George Weyerhaeuser, the nine-year-old son of prominent lumber trade executive J.P.
In 1951, an investigation by a state legislative committee revealed widespread corruption in Tacoma's government, which had been ordered commission-style since 1910.
Tacoma was featured prominently in the garage modern sound of the mid-1960s with bands including The Wailers and The Sonics.
Downtown Tacoma experienced a long diminish through the mid-20th century.
Harold Moss, later the city's mayor, characterized late-1970s Tacoma as looking "bombed out" like "downtown Beirut" (a reference to the Lebanese Civil War that occurred at that time); "Streets were abandoned, storefronts were abandoned and City Hall was the headstone and Union Station the footstone" on the grave of downtown. The municipally owned power company, Tacoma Power, wired the city.
Beginning in the early 1990s, town/city residents and creators took steps to revitalize Tacoma, especially its downtown.
Among the projects were the federal courthouse in the former Union Station (1991); the adaptation of a group of century-old brick warehouses into a branch ground of the University of Washington; the various privately financed renovation projects near the campus; the Washington State History Museum (1996), echoing the architecture of Union Station; the Museum of Glass (2002); the Tacoma Art Museum (2003); and the region's first light-rail line (2003). The glass and steel Greater Tacoma Convention and Trade Center opened in November 2004. America's Car Museum was instead of in late 2011 near the Tacoma Dome.
The Theatre District of downtown Tacoma is anchored by the Pantages Theater (first opened in 1918).
The Broadway Center for the Performing Arts manages the Pantages, the Rialto Theater, and the Theatre on the Square, as well as Tacoma Little Theatre.
In 2004, Tacoma was ranked among the top 30 Most Livable Communities in an annual survey conducted by the Partners for Livable Communities. In 2009, Tacoma voted for its second black mayor, Marilyn Strickland.
Tacoma straddles the neighboring Commencement Bay with a several smaller metros/cities surrounding it.
Large areas of Tacoma have views of Mount Rainier.
Climate data for Tacoma, Washington The government of the town/city of Tacoma operates under a council-manager system.
The town/city council comprises of an voted for mayor (Marilyn Strickland) and eight voted for council members, five from individual town/city council districts and three the rest from the town/city at-large.
Normal day-to-day operations of the town/city government are administered by Tacoma's town/city manager, who is assigned by the town/city council.
Tacoma is the home of a several international companies including staffing business True Blue Inc.
Beginning in the 1930s, Tacoma became known for the "Tacoma Aroma", a diverse ive, acrid odor produced by paper manufacturing on the industrialized tide flats.
The Tacoma Mall is the biggest shopping center in Tacoma.
An economic setback for the town/city occurred in September 2009 when Russell Investments, which has been positioned in downtown Tacoma since its inception in 1936, reported it was moving its command posts to Seattle along with a several hundred white-collar jobs. Hospitals in Tacoma are directed by Multi - Care Health System and Franciscan Health System.
Hospitals include Multi - Care Tacoma General Hospital, Mary Bridge Children's Hospital, Multi - Care Allenmore Hospital and St.
According to Tacoma's 2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in Pierce County are: 6 City of Tacoma 3,670 Tacoma's fitness of transit is based primarily on the automobile.
The majority of the town/city has a fitness of gridded streets oriented in relation to A Street (one block east of Pacific Avenue) and 6th Avenue or Division Avenue, both beginning in downtown Tacoma.
This can lead to confusion, as most titled streets intersect streets of the same number in both north and south Tacoma.
"North East" covers a small wedge of Tacoma and unincorporated Pierce County (around Browns Point and Dash Point) lying on the hill athwart the tideflats from downtown.
Tacoma does have some primary roads which do not seem to follow any naming rules.
These roads include Schuster Pkwy, Pacific Ave, Puyallup Ave, Tacoma Mall Blvd, Marine View Dr (SR 509), and Northshore Pkwy.
Tacoma also has some primary roads which appear to change names in different areas (most eminent are Tyler St/Stevens St, Oakes St/Pine St/Cedar St/Alder St, and S.
This numeric fitness extends to the furthest reaches of unincorporated Pierce County (with roads outside of the town/city carrying "East", "West", "North West", and "South West", except on the Key Peninsula, which retains the north-south streets but chooses the Pierce Kitsap county line as the zero point for east-west streets.
In portions of the town/city dating back to the Tacoma Streetcar Period (1888 1938), denser mixed-use company districts exist alongside single family homes.
The Proctor District, Tacoma, Old Town, Dome, 6th Avenue, Stadium, Lincoln Business District, and South Tacoma Business Districts are some of the more prominent and prominent of these and coordinate their accomplishments to redevelop urban villages through the Cross District Association of Tacoma. In newer portions of the town/city to the west and south, residentiary culs-de-sac, four-lane collector roads and indoor shopping centers are more commonplace.
Seven highways end in or pass through Tacoma: I-5, I-705, SR 7, SR 16, SR 163, SR 167, and SR 509. The dominant intercity transit link between Tacoma and other parts of the Puget Sound is Interstate 5, which links Tacoma with Seattle to the north and Portland, Oregon, to the south.
State Route 16 runs along a concrete viaduct through Tacoma's Nalley Valley, connecting Interstate 5 with Central and West Tacoma, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, and the Kitsap Peninsula.
Seattle Tacoma International Airport lies 22 miles (35 km) north, in the town/city of Sea - Tac.
A Tacoma Link light rail train on Commerce Street Public transit in Tacoma contains buses, commuter rail, light rail, and ferries.
Public bus service is provided by Pierce Transit, which serves Tacoma and Pierce County.
Sound Transit has also established Tacoma Link light rail, a 1.6-mile (2.6 km) no-charge electric streetcar line linking Tacoma Dome Station with the University of Washington, Tacoma, Tacoma's Museum District, and the Theater District.
Expansion of the city's rail transit fitness is presently in planning stages by the town/city of Tacoma and Sound Transit.
The Amtrak station in Tacoma.
Greyhound intercity bus service is accessible via Tacoma Dome Station.
Amtrak, the nationwide traveler rail system, provides service to Tacoma from a station on Puyallup Avenue, one block east of the Tacoma Dome Station.
The Cascades trains, operating as far north as Vancouver, British Columbia and as far south as Eugene, Oregon, serve Tacoma a several times everyday in both directions.
Tacoma's relationship with enhance utilities extends back to 1893.
Since then, Tacoma Public Utilities (TPU) has grown from a small water and light utility to be the biggest department in the city's government, employing about 1,200 citizens .
Tacoma Power, a division of TPU, provides inhabitants of Tacoma and a several bordering municipalities with electrical power generated by eight hydroelectric dams positioned on the Skokomish River and elsewhere.
The capacity of Tacoma's hydroelectric fitness as of 2004 was 713,000 kilowatts, or about 50% of the demand made up by TPU's customers (the rest is purchased from other utilities).
According to TPU, hydroelectricity provides about 87% of Tacoma's power; coal 3%; natural gas 1%; nuclear 9%; and biomass and wind at less than 1%.
Tacoma Power also operates the Click! Tacoma Water provides customers in its service region with water from the Green River Watershed.
As of 2004, Tacoma Water provided water services to 93,903 customers.
Tacoma Rail, initially a municipally owned street stockyards line running to the tideflats, was converted to a common-carrier rail switching utility.
In addition to municipal garbage collection, Tacoma offers commingled recycling services for paper, cardboard, plastics, and metals.
Parks and recreation services in and around Tacoma are governed by Metro Parks Tacoma, a municipal corporation established as a separate entity from the town/city government in 1907.
Ruston Way is a coastline region along Commencement Bay north of downtown Tacoma that hosts a several enhance parks connected by a multi-use trail and interspersed with restaurants and other businesses.
Another large park in Tacoma is Wapato Park, which has a lake and strolling trails that circle the lake.
Wapato is positioned in the south end of Tacoma, at Sheridan and 72nd St.
This beautiful historic park is also the home of small-town festivals such as Ethnic Fest, Out in the Park (Tacoma's Pride festival), and the Tacoma Hempfest (Tacoma's annual gathering advocating decriminalization of marijuana).
Jefferson Park in North Tacoma is the locale of a new sprayground, an region designed to be a safe and unique play region where water is sprayed from structures or ground sprays and then drained away before it can accumulate.
Frost Park in downtown Tacoma is often utilized for sidewalk chalk contests.
In response to the Tacoma area's burgeoning dog population, dog parks have been added to minimize endangerment to human users of the park system.
Tacoma contains a several landmarks and was home to prolific architects, including Everett Phipps Babcock, Frederick Heath, Ambrose J.
Two suspension bridges presently span a narrow section of the Salish Sea called the Tacoma Narrows.
The Tacoma Narrows Bridges link Tacoma to Gig Harbor and the Kitsap Peninsula.
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Pierce County, Washington Tacoma Tacoma has many properties that are listed on the City of Tacoma Register of Historic Places, the Washington State Heritage Register, and the National Register of Historic Places.
The town/city of Tacoma has an active municipal historic preservation program, which contains 165 individual town/city landmarks and over 1,000 historic properties encompassed inside five locally regulated historic overlay zones.
Stadium High School and the Stadium Bowl, part of the Tacoma School District, provided a setting for the movie 10 Things I Hate About You.[relevant? 1 rests on a permanent dry berth at a enhance beach near Tacoma's Old Town neighborhood.
Other eminent buildings include the National Realty Building, Lincoln High School, Rhodes House, Pythian Temple, Perkins Building, Tacoma Dome, Rhodesleigh, and Engine House No.
Panorama of Tacoma from the Mc - Kinley neighborhood with the Tacoma Dome in the foreground and Puget Sound in the background.
Tacoma's chief enhance school precinct is Tacoma Public Schools.
Mount Tahoma High School opened a brand new building in South Tacoma in the fall of 2004.
Tacoma School of the Arts, opened in 2001, is an arts-focused high school that serves as a nationwide model for educational innovation.
SOTA is a enhance school, part of the Tacoma Public Schools and is one of the first schools in the country to implement standards-based instruction, western the design of many schools in the nation.
SOTA is positioned in multiple venues around Downtown Tacoma and uses Community Museums and Universities for instructional space.
SAMI and SOTA are the only schools in Tacoma to offer University of Washington in the Classroom college credit options from the University of Washington.
Tacoma's Covenant High School is associated with Faith Presbyterian Church. Tacoma's establishments of higher learning include the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma Community College, City University of Seattle-Tacoma, Bates Technical College, The Evergreen State College Tacoma Campus, Corban University School of Ministry/Tacoma Campus, and University of Washington Tacoma.
It is connected to the rest of the Museum District by the Bridge of Glass, which features works by Tacoma indigenous glass artist Dale Chihuly.
Tacoma Art Museum was established in 1935 and reopened in 2003 in a new building on Pacific Avenue in Tacoma forming the "museum district" with the Museum of Glass and Washington State History Museum.
They are home to the Tacoma Opera, Tacoma Symphony Orchestra, Northwest Sinfionetta, Tacoma City Ballet, Tacoma Concert Band, Tacoma Philharmonic, Tacoma Youth Symphony, Theatre Northwest, and Puget Sound Revels (one of ten Revels organizations nationwide).
Tacoma is home to the first undivided American legal marijuana farmers market. The downtown Tacoma farmers' market runs every Thursday, from May through September, in the Theatre District. There are also cyclic farmers markets in the Proctor District (along Sixth Avenue), and in South Tacoma. Tacoma hosts part of the annual four-part Daffodil Parade, which takes place every April in Tacoma, Puyallup, Sumner, and Orting.
The Tacoma Police Department is the site of a enhance memorial for officers, dominated by the sculptures "Memories in Blue" and "For All They Gave", by James Kelsey.
Between 1907 and 1918, four dailies were presented: The Tacoma Ledger, The News, The Tacoma Tribune, and The Tacoma Times.
Tacoma receives Seattle-area TV and airways broadcasts.
Tacoma is home to KBTC Public Television, a PBS member station serving viewers throughout Washington.
KBTC is homed at the former home of long-time Tacoma broadcaster, KSTW.
Local papers include the Tacoma Weekly, the legal paper Tacoma Daily Index, the South Sound alternative newsweekly Weekly Volcano and the military printed announcement the Fort Lewis Ranger. Tacoma Tide Basketball 2005 International Basketball League Stadium High School Tacoma Stars Indoor Soccer 2010 Major Arena Soccer League Tacoma Soccer Center Tacoma Cobras Football 2009 Professional Developmental Football League Franklin Pierce Stadium The Tacoma Rockets of the Western Hockey League were lost to relocation and moved to Kelowna, British Columbia.
The Tacoma Sabercats of the former West Coast Hockey League closed their doors for financial reasons.
The Tacoma Dome still hosts traveling sports and other affairs, such as pro-wrestling, figure-skating tours, and the Harlem Globetrotters.
At one point, the Tacoma Dome was home to a experienced indoor soccer team, the Tacoma Stars.
The Tacoma Dome also hosted the 1988 and 1989 Women's NCAA Final Four.
Tacoma is home to the all-female flat track roller derby league Dockyard Derby Dames, which fields an away team. See also: Category:People from Tacoma, Washington Tacoma with a view of Mount Rainier.
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